Society
-
"Mafia boss" Berdych and gang appear in court
They're calling it one of the biggest cases in Czech criminal history. Alleged mafia boss David Berdych and 35 members of his gang were marched into a Prague court on…
-
Scratch, spit and kick below the belt - all in self defense.
In the first eleven months of 2005, police in the Czech capital Prague, reported about eighty-five attacks on women of different ages. Seventy of them were of a sexual…
-
New rector to head Charles University
The Czech Republic's oldest and most prestigious institutions, Charles University, has just welcomed a new rector: 44-year-old Vaclav Hampl, a well-known medical…
-
Bublan orders firemen to check hypermarket roofs in wake of Katowice disaster
The shockwaves from the Katowice trade fair disaster are being felt across Europe. There's still some dispute over whether snow was a major factor in the collapse of the…
-
Should communist-era injustices be financially compensated?
As the fifty-eighth anniversary of the communist coup in Czechoslovakia nears, survivors of that era are leading an effort to have their story told, and the wrongs they…
-
Czech Pharmacies close down amid row over profit margin
There are approximately 2,200 pharmacies in the Czech Republic and most of them closed their doors to the public for three hours on Monday. Pharmacists are protesting…
-
Czechs among victims of collapsed exhibition-hall in Poland
Poland has begun three days of mourning after a collapsed roof of an exhibition hall in Katowice in the south of the country killed almost 70 people on Saturday. Among the…
-
Magazine
Fighting over a roof that's in no man's land. Why do so many young Czechs over twenty live with mum and dad. And, the risks of using a portable toilet in freezing…
-
Czech Jewish community experiences rebirth after fall of communism
The Czech Republic marks Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, January 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in 1945. Some 80,000 Bohemian and…
-
Bill on single sex partnerships makes it through both houses of Parliament
After seven years of intensive lobbying the Czech gay and lesbian community has finally come close to reaching its goal: on Thursday the upper house of Parliament, the…
-
A tent city for Prague's homeless
Letna Plain in Prague is best-known as a site of communist-era mass parades and outdoor concerts, but the extreme cold-snap of recent days has changed the face of Letna —…
-
Controversial food and chemicals magnate shot dead in Prague
The Czech papers carry reports this morning of last night's mafia-style killing of a controversial businessman linked to the multi-million-crown food and chemicals…
Pages
- « první
- ‹ předchozí
- …
- 449
- 450
- 451
- 452
- 453
- 454
- 455
- 456
- 457
- …
- následující ›
- poslední »